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Log In to Brightspace
Your experience trying to log in to Brightspace for the first time may differ depending on how your organization has set up and is managing log in credentials. Your organization may have a Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication method implemented, where you can access all the sites in your organization using a single SSO…
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Change your personal settings in Brightspace
By clicking on your username, you can make changes to your user profile, notifications, account settings, and log out. Note: Depending on your permissions and what tools are enabled, additional settings may appear. Edit your user profile You can edit your user profile, including updating your profile picture, social…
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Navigate Brightspace and find your course
Learn about your Brightspace organizational homepage, how to find a course in your organization, and how to navigate your course level homepage. Navigate your organizational homepage The Brightspace organizational homepage is designed to help make your job easier, more efficient, and give you greater reach when it comes to…
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Activate your course
After building your course, ensure that you are aware if it is accessible to learners by controlling its availability and active status. This is particularly important if you only want to make your course available to learners during a specified time period or academic term. Make your course available and active From your…
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About course administration
Course Administration is a central area for accessing tools related to setting up and managing your course. From here you can access many tools to help you run your course smoothly, including: * Enable and disable course tools * Rename course tools * Manage course offering information * Import course components * Import…
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Design your Course
Create a course shell Use the Course Builder to quickly and easily create a new template, create a new course offering or reoffer an existing course offering. There are several ways you can create your course shell: * Creating a new template * Creating a new course template and a new course * Creating a new course based on…
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Customize your course navbar
When you log in to Brightspace, you will notice that your course homepage is broken up into two sections. In the top half, you will see navigation tools, such as your navbar. You can customize your navbar to surface the tools most relevant to you and your learners . Your navbar can be enabled to be text-based or…
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Best practices for creating a Course Homepage
The course homepage is likely the first page your learners see when they land in your course. Therefore it’s important to design the homepage with purpose to enhance the course experience. The goal is to place useful information in intuitive places rather than create a cluttered homepage that causes your learners to…
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Create and insert a video note in Brightspace Editor
Record videos up to 25 minutes long and add them anywhere where Brightspace Editor is available. To help ensure all users can learn without barriers, closed captions can be automatically created. Note: The ability to add video notes is controlled by a permission set by your administrator. If you do not see the Add Video…
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Enroll learners
Enroll a learner in your course In Brightspace, navigate to your course. On the navbar, click Classlist. From the Add Participants drop-down menu, select Create and enroll a new user. Fill in the user’s information. If you want to send the user an enrollment email, select the Send Enrollment email. Click Enroll. Import…